by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security over what they called “gimmicky” accounting. They called the $40.6 billion proposal “unrealistic” and “politically motivated,” because more than...
by Celena Chong | Feb 23, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest blasted Congress for failing to do its job Tuesday after Republican lawmakers snubbed President Barack Obama’s long-awaited plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Obama’s proposal, sent up to...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 23, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee used a State Department budget hearing Tuesday to grill Secretary of State John Kerry on far more than diplomatic finances. “I think that as former chair of this committee,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joked with...
by Jacob Meschke | Feb 17, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Surrounded by friends and activists, Holly Sterling delivered a letter to the White House on Wednesday, asking for the immediate pardon of her husband, Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA employee convicted of leaking classified information. Attached...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 17, 2016 | National Security
[rev_slider alias=”Kerry meets Polish foreign minister”] WASHINGTON – Secretary of State John Kerry met with Polish foreign minister Wiltold Waszczykowski Wednesday, one week after a $5 billion arms deal with the Slavic nation landed in limbo when the...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 17, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON– The State Department’s new multifaceted approach to combating violent extremism takes the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups off the battlefield and into communities where the risk of radicalization is highest. Deputy...
by Celena Chong and Alex Lederman | Feb 16, 2016 | National Security
FORT MEADE, Md. — Walid bin Attash, an accused organizer of the 9/11 attacks, requested Tuesday that Judge Col. James Pohl review a letter he wrote explaining why he doesn’t trust his lawyers on the first day of his pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay. The...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 16, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The State Department’s new five-part approach to combating violent extremism takes the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups off the battlefield and into communities where the risk of radicalization is highest. Deputy Secretary of State Tony...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 15, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — More than 100 older Americans have been arrested abroad in the last 16 months because of scams used by international drug traffickers to turn unsuspecting seniors into drug mules, the Department of Homeland Securityreported Wednesday. Federal law...
by Drew Gerber | Feb 10, 2016 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON– The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would require anyone employed by the Defense Department to report cases of suspected child abuse on military installations to state child protective service agencies in addition to reporting such suspected...
by Jacob Meschke | Feb 9, 2016 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon wants to more than triple spending in Eastern Europe in the next fiscal year to contain the emerging threat of Russian aggression and protect its allies, top Defense Department officials said Tuesday in releasing the proposed $582.7...
by Drew Gerber | Feb 9, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The House prepared to vote on legislation Tuesday that would require service members, Defense contractors and civilian employees to report cases of suspected child abuse on military installations to child protective service agencies — in addition...
